Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-02
HOW TO MOVE.
Sacrificing Ones Self on the Altar of
Friendship and How it Panned
Out TO " Cabriolet.'
Trials and TrihuIaiion. of Transit
tsrpctinc the C"Iiar-DigginK Up
Lavender Eug>-Othrr
Calamiiie-.


grow fat and inactive if | didn't do any
thing but help get out daily paper and
he wanted me to nil in the interStices be-
tweenmy literary efforts by helping him drag
furniture. So | went over. He knew il
would be novelty to me, for newspaper
men as a rule do not move their household
effects. They max" their escape with
suit of hand-mr-duNG clothing and IuIshed
countenance, and the landlord applies the
proceeds of the parlor carpet and the adver-
tiSing cards tackled up over the house to
healing whatever little financial difference
OF opinion may exist between him and his
late tenant.
My friend i q married man with wife
and two children, and they have good
deal of truck that wouldn't be worth its
space on a prairie They cart this debris
around from house to house because its
too good to throw away, and they hate To
sell il because they might not know what
to do with the dime. But | helped them
move all the same. took day
of from the newspaper and assisted in the
transit. When | arrived i'll the morning
my friends wife met me at the door, with
A sheet wound around her hair and a look
of wild determination. done in cOlors, on
her face. asked her where her husband
was and she told me he was down cellar
scraping eff some whitewash he had put on
the wall when they first came. so they
could use it at the new house. asked her
why he didn't move over the cellar.
Then commenced to help move in earn
est The house where they We're going was
just next door to the one they were leaving
and my friend. with great foresight, had
ordered two big mnving-yans and four
coiored men to assist in the ceremonies
| asked. before hithng in, what
remained 10 be done Ny friends wife an
swered nothing but the moving. All the
rest had been attended To. All the rest, |
suppose referred 10 telling the neighbors
how good the new house was. and how the
rain-water at the old house smelt like rats
in it.
thereupon fell To work. First thing |
did was Ia 90 up town and borrow step
ladder. This carried back in triumph.
and on the way. probed a fat man with the
front end of it. and in wheeling around to
apologize, batted little boy in the ear.
The boy evidently thought | was deyotee
Of the national game, for he. responded
with low bawl. Ny fat friend assured
me with animation that he had swallowed
hi dasrft 'tr be gfRT tie rsdn'f swaiI5oM%;a;d
his blamed old palate. | then continued
my way with the step ladder When |
reached my friends house, everybody was
busy except the hired men. They were
cracking Jokes and croCkery with perfect
deliberatiOn. | told them to hurry M or
they wouldn't be through in time to urit.
| never deprive my interiors OF the adyap-
tage OF studying pure American humOr.
First thing | did was 10 rear the step-
ladder up in front of the front door and
take OFF the number of the house. IL ism,
every body who would have thought of this
but have knack for details. [ carried
the number over and tackled il on the new
place. | had 10 go up town after a uew
paper OF tackS about this time. and
while | was up | thought | would
Just engage a man with hand-cart
to come and haul over the currant bushes
which next proceeded to dig up As soon
as they were safely over and planted in the.
front yard commenced to remove the win !
dow saSheS of the old place and carry them
over one at time. But the landlord of the |
latter came and stopped me. accompanied
by some rude language. and my friend who
was moving was weak enough to give in 10 /
him. I'm going To have those window |
SaShrs vet.
went up town about this time TO look at |
the town clock and ste If had time to do
else before dinner. When came
back | became interested in a little game
that was going On in one of the moving
wagons The other van was around in the
backyard being loaded up with stuff that
my fIiend was enargetically digging out of
the cellar. consisting of about eleven gen
arations of obsolete oyster cans and a good
ieal OF moldy SawduSt full of fat. lavender
'olored bugs that looked like they might
De drifting into drOpsy. But the moyin.
wagon out in front was the scene of the
most fun. The houses. As | said. adjoined
ZACH other. and the hind end of the wagon
stood in front of one while the front was in
precise longitude with the other. OF course
he wagon was not needed for ANYTHING but
appearance, but there was heap of per
plring activity going on in it, and
investigated. Give me bun
on if those col0red men weren't
oading the furniture into one end of the
wagon and dragging il out Of the other.
The way that wagon was accumulating
alary was something tough 10 contemplate.
stopped this little scheme and told the
river that he ought Ia be ashamed of him
elf. He said he would be, at the usual rates
er hour
1t was noon by this time and we all had
inner IN the dningroOm of the old house ,
he intelligent colored faction had taken ,
own the cOOk-stove first thing I
4 the morning and carried il over /
ltO the upstairs parlOr bed room of the
ew house. SO the dinner consisted of u y
offee and sandwiches. brought in from e
eighhoring restaurant. | have a weakness
Dr coffee, and this time it returned the :
,mpliment and had weakness for all of &
:. We drank good deal of water 10 =
ash down the coffee. The hired men 4
'ok full hour at noon and then Y
'ok twenty-five minutes more because p
!ey believed in standard time. Finally
icy got 10 work, but not until after they Z;
al sinuouSly entwined themselves around
lOugh ham SandwiceS to start q restaurant a,
: to stop one. They claimed to be good AT :;
lttlng down carpets, but they We're better a
rtting down sandwiches and they matched d,
e figures better. III
After dinner my friend. the man of the it
'use disappeared, and didn't know where III
was. hunted around awhile and Vi
Ially found him down cellar at the new &, -
'use putting down carpet on the cement De
or. He said he had made up his mind TO re-
tulge himself in this luxury for long m
ne. expect next week to see him put ~
TX lace curtains over the well and setting
Iand-painted screen in front of the door n,
iding into the cow-Shed OH
At , o'clock | picked up the photograph 70,
,um and carried it over | saw that m,
: coiOred men had been shirking Sn
S task for some time. and / proposed
see these people get moved. came
etty near writing that put the goldfish Fo
my pocketand carried over the aquarium, bu